ePoster · Cognitive Psychology
Seeing is believing? Influences of political views and emotions on authenticity perception of photojournalistic pictures
Laurent Beaupoil, Beata Pacula-Leśniak, Tomasz Kulczycki, Michał Kuniecki · FENS Forum 2024
The World Economic Forum in its latest report elects disinformation as the most significant short-term global risk to tackle in modern society. This report more specifically mentions that misinformation is capable of disrupting elections and exacerbating societal polarization. Since photojournalistic images are treated as a proof, as a self-contained piece of evidence that an event has happened (Garry et al., 2007), finding out which factors influence the perception of the authenticity of a picture is crucial. We collected authenticity perception, political views, and emotional response to im